Catalog
½ Unit
| Issuer | Beuibum (Turduli people) |
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| Year | 150 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A krater or cista mystica depicted in the centre of the field, rendered in a sturdy, stylised manner with two lateral handles clearly visible. The vessel is framed on both sides by olive or laurel branches, lending a symmetrical composition to the type. The abbreviated legend A · S appears above the vessel in Latin characters, likely referencing the minting authority or magistrate of Salacia. Below the krater, an inscription in South Lusitanian (Southwestern) script provides a bilingual character unique to this coinage. The reverse border is plain. |
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| Mintage | ND (150 BC - 100 BC) |
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The Turduli were an Iberian people whose territory in the middle Guadalquivir valley placed them squarely within Rome's expanding administrative grip following the Second Punic War. Beuibum itself remains imprecisely located — scholars have proposed sites near modern Écija and Peñaflor without consensus. The fractional denomination suggests a functioning local economy sophisticated enough to require small change, likely tied to agricultural taxation and Roman military supply networks operating through Baetica during this period.
ACIP 982 is among the scarcer Turduli emissions and appears infrequently in Iberian series auction records.